On National Coming Out Day, a new email support/discussion list
officially launched for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered,
questioning, and straight supportive (here on out referred to as
gay+) youth ages 21 to 25.

The YOUTH21-25 is the third email list that joins the other youth
only email lists hosted by CritPath.Org (The Critical Path Project).
The other two lists are YOUTH13-17 and YOUTH17-21.

The premise for the YOUTH lists is to establish an outlet for gay,
lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and supportive youth
ages 25 and under to talk with each other concerning such issues as
coming out, schools, parents, friends, relationships, and other
gay-related and non-gay-related youth issues. The three email lists
(YOUTH13-17, YOUTH17-21, and YOUTH21-25) are the first of its kind to
offer a conversational/chat/support youth group in an email form. The
email lists solve some problems that newsgroups, IRC, and chat rooms
have. Email is quick, easy, convenient, and the most accessible. Not
everyone knows how to subscribe to newsgroups, or to enter chat
rooms, or even have the access capability to do so. But anyone with
an email address can have access to this new list.

The YOUTH lists are for youth ONLY. Seventeen-year-olds are given
the choice of subscribing to either the 13-17 list, or the 17-21
list, or to both lists. Twenty-one-year-olds are given the choice of
subscribing to either the 17-21 list, the 21-25 list, or both lists.

The YOUTH lists have a strict age guideline in order to hopefully
solve the problem of older people hanging around in supposed youth
forums. The age policy will be strictly enforced on the list.
Although there is no absolute way to guarantee that a subscriber is
within the proper age range, if it comes to the attention of the list
owner that a particular subscriber is over the permitted age then
that subscriber will be immediately removed from the list. The list
will try its best to remain youth ONLY.